Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

11.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

12.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

18.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

21.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

22.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

25.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

26.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

27.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

28.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

32.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

34.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

45.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

46.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

48.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger